Musician Ahmir Khalib Thompson, often known as Questlove, has offered to assist to fund the annual musical at his old school, the Philadelphia High School for Innovative and The stage Arts (CAPA), it is revealed this week.
Questlove, who plays drums for that Grammy-award winning Hip Hop band ‘The Roots’ (the group presently occupying the spot as the house band for United states talk show ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’), is also a exceedingly sought after record producer, music journalist and DJ.
The 42-year-old drummer heard that his school was being forced to cancel their 2013 musical as a result of budget cuts and opted to make sure that next year’s show wouldn’t suffer a similar destiny.
Thompson actually called the college’s principal, Johnny C. Whaley, JR and chose a “sizeable donation” to make sure that the show would go ahead next year.
Because of Questlove’s bounteousness as well as the efforts of other donors (like local lawyers Charles Peruto and Abe Kasbo) the college’s annual musical custom is predicted to resume in 2014.
Whaley told KYW Newsradio that Thompson has “reached out to our school in the past and given us goods”, he went on to say that “you have to know that we’re an extremely close-knit organization, when our alumni see things changing, whenever they have the economic ability to help, they reach out to us.”
The annual event, that is a necessary platform both for CAPA as an institution and for young talent in the Philadelphia area, costs about $65,000 (approximately £42,000) to provide, but is not part of CAPA’s annual budget. “There’s a certain standard of brilliance we now have,” says Whaley of the cost, “We don’t concede when it relates to production”
The prior show was funded by The Home and School Association, following a grant from The William Penn Foundation.
CAPA is noted for the fostering of creative talent and many of the school’s graduates have gone on to flourishing careers in arts and entertainment. Notable alumni include record-breaking RnB vocal set ‘Boyz II Men’, author and ‘Scrubs’ co-producer Angela Nissel and former James Brown and Sting bassist Christian McBride as well as a lot more.
Questlove met and befriended MC and fellow ‘Roots’ cofounder Tariq Trotter (better known as ‘Black Thought’) while both were students at CAPA.
Sources:
http://www.okayplayer.com/news/questlove-saves-capa-high-school-play.html
http://articles.philly.com/2013-05-06/news/39044128_1_questlove-capa-the-roots
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